To: Tax-chick
As you wish.
I’ve been occupying myself with thinking about how Elon Musk will solve three problems regarding taking humans to Mars and back.
1) Artificial gravity.
2) Growing food on the trip.
3) Providing power.
Some of these are related, so it makes a pretty puzzle.
To be honest, making sure that the “skydiver maneuver” works for landing the Starship is much more important right now, but I’m just doing some thinking down the road.
It’s what would-be science-fiction writers do. With Musk around, it’s a challenge to stay ahead.
619 posted on
11/12/2019 8:34:05 AM PST by
NicknamedBob
(If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
To: NicknamedBob
I think the human problems will be equally difficult, as many science-fiction writers have explored, whether or not they covered the technical aspects with anything other than assertion. “The ship flew to Mars, and ...”
620 posted on
11/12/2019 8:38:02 AM PST by
Tax-chick
(Tomado de la mano, yo voy con Cristo a donde El va!)
To: NicknamedBob
I started watching the Nat Geo series “Mars”. it was so poorly written from a scientific perspective that I gave up after 4 episodes. Relatively predictable problems were not planed for and all the while there are talking about while they were bragging about how much the experts had done to make it a successful mission. Musk was heavily interviewed for the series.
621 posted on
11/12/2019 8:38:55 AM PST by
mad_as_he$$
(Beware the homeless industrial complex.)
To: NicknamedBob
Back? I thought it was a one way trip.
625 posted on
11/12/2019 9:29:06 AM PST by
ArGee
(Excellence or diversity? Ask for diversity, you get diversity. Ask for excellence, you get both.)
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